stew.smith@bmtcorp.com

About Stew Smith

I enjoy my work at BMT - an established IT consulting firm, constantly evolving my security, management and consulting abilities to assist our wide range of clients in leveraging IT to achieve strategic business goals. Wearing different hats keeps the job interesting, challenging and rewarding.

Netgear Routers have critical flaw

Threat: Several Netgear routers are vulnerable to remote hacking. Real World Scenarios: A hacker can take over your router and use it for other nefarious purposes. While compromised the router would most likely perform poorly affecting your Internet Access. Mitigation: Here's what you can do - Check for updates for your router [...]

By |2018-05-16T15:28:32-05:00December 14th, 2016|Categories: Catch IT, CyberSecurity|

Nov. 2016 Zero-Day Windows Flaw

Threat: Google security experts have reported a critical security flaw in Adobe and Windows products. The Windows flaw is confirmed by Microsoft not to have a patch yet. A flaw without a patch is called a Zero-Day flaw. Microsoft promises one in the monthly release this Tuesday Nov. 8'th. Google says, [...]

By |2019-07-31T12:56:40-05:00November 3rd, 2016|Categories: Catch IT, CyberSecurity|

Killer USB’s!

Don’t Plug in that strange flash drive! Worse than containing Malware it may be wired to destroy your device We’ve warned about plugging in USB flash drives, from unknown sources, to your devices in before. This is because of the Malware they may contain. But there are also USB drives out [...]

By |2018-11-20T14:11:35-05:00October 31st, 2016|Categories: Catch IT|Tags: , |

Critical Apple iOS Update

Don't open another picture on your iPhone until you apply the latest update to the device. From the security notice accompanying  the 10.1 update - "Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted JPEG file may lead to arbitrary code execution"    http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207271 Plain English - Potentially, any image you view on your phone through: Facebook, Snapchat, [...]

By |2018-05-16T15:31:36-05:00October 25th, 2016|Categories: Catch IT, CyberSecurity|

Chrome 53 – Update now to fix critical security flaws

Google has released a new version of their popular Chrome browser. The new release, version 53, includes fixes for several critical security flaws. We recommend updating Google Chrome as soon as possible. To do so: Open Google Chrome. Click the 3 vertically-aligned dots under the X in the upper right hand corner. [...]

By |2018-05-16T15:32:49-05:00September 6th, 2016|Categories: Catch IT, CyberSecurity|

Back to (security) School?

91% of successful data breaches started with a spear-phishing attack. The Hackers get an A! I'll bet, less than 60% of your co-workers know what a spear-phishing attack is.   (Spear Phishing Definition) Despite all the money your company may have invested in: Firewalls, Antivirus, Antimalware, Antispam, VPN's, 2-Factor Authentication - [...]

By |2018-05-18T09:37:30-05:00August 18th, 2016|Categories: Catch IT, CyberSecurity|Tags: , , , , |

BMT’s Cyber Security Awareness Training Program

Today we are pleased to announce the launching of our: Cyber Security Awareness Training Program Cyber Security Ignorance No one wants to be the person that: clicks on a link that encrypts all the data on the company servers until a hefty ransom is paid, wires thousands of dollars to a [...]

By |2018-05-18T09:39:07-05:00August 18th, 2016|Categories: BMT Announcement, CyberSecurity|Tags: , , , |

Symantec AV Security Flaw

Threat: Google Security Experts have found a security flaw in Symantec AV products. The flaw affects all their AV software from the Norton Home version to their Enterprise Endpoint Protection software. They are quoted as saying, "It's as bad as it gets!" Risk: Hackers can take advantage of the flaw [...]

By |2019-07-31T12:38:50-05:00June 30th, 2016|Categories: Catch IT, CyberSecurity|

Uninstall Apple Quicktime for Windows!

PROBLEM: 2 critical new flaws were found in Apple's Quicktime video player. While Apple knows about these 2 new bugs it  is no longer issuing security updates for Quicktime for Windows. This warning does not apply to Apple's Quicktime on Mac systems. It is not known why Apple is still [...]

By |2018-05-18T09:43:59-05:00April 18th, 2016|Categories: Catch IT|

World Backup Day 2016

On the eve of April Fools consider this: 30% of people have never backed up 113 Phones are lost or stolen every minute 29% of disasters are caused by accident 1 in 10 computers is infected with viruses each month. 9 in 10 businesses have not reviewed their backup plan in [...]

By |2018-05-18T09:48:26-05:00March 31st, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , |

Windows 10 Update free for Windows 7 and 8 PC’s

    Windows 10 upgrades are available as a free update thru 07/29/2016 - Test before upgrading! The latest version of Windows, Windows 10, can be deployed as a free Windows Update to licensed Windows 7 and 8.1 devices. It has been available since July 29th, 2015. The update will remain free [...]

By |2018-05-18T09:50:19-05:00March 15th, 2016|Categories: Catch IT|
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